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i want to bring up something that's been bothering me all weekend following the tragic shooting at sandy hook elementary school in connecticut the corporate media has a latched on to the story like the parasitic vultures they are now i don't mean to say that the shooting doesn't deserve attention but the fact of the matter is that the way the corporate press covers these types of tragedies is like shock and awe or and it's always the same check it out. first video yet of the alleged gunman james holmes. a.b.c. news obtaining video of the suspected shooter recorded six years ago when holmes was eighteen at a summer science camp held at a college in san diego identifying forty year old army veteran wade michael page as the gunman who walked into a sikh temple south of milwaukee sunday morning and opened fire with a nine millimeter semiautomatic handgun killing five men and one woman and wounding three others including the first police officer to arrive on scene friday morning adam lanza shoots his old mother at home several times he drives roughly five miles to sandy hook elementary with g
i want to bring up something that's been bothering me all weekend following the tragic shooting at sandy hook elementary school in connecticut the corporate media has a latched on to the story like the parasitic vultures they are now i don't mean to say that the shooting doesn't deserve attention but the fact of the matter is that the way the corporate press covers these types of tragedies is like shock and awe or and it's always the same check it out. first video yet of the alleged gunman...
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confronting a similarly deadly threat it's gun violence which was on shocking display last friday at sandy hook elementary in newtown connecticut unfortunately this time we the people don't have the same tools to go after gun manufacturers that we did when we went after tobacco manufacturers and that's because the gun industry and mostly republican members of congress have already taken measures to shield the gun industry from any lawsuits related to death or injuries caused by their products joining me now to explain why that is and how the gun industry got immunity and never has to pay for the deaths or products cause i'm joined by howard nation he's an attorney and the former president of the national trial lawyers association howard welcome. good meaning great to see where i went after big tobacco with a massive loss in the one nine hundred ninety s. why can't we do the same with the gun industry well the short answer is because in october of two thousand and five congress passed and president bush signed the lawful protection protection of lawful commerce in arms act which granted imm
confronting a similarly deadly threat it's gun violence which was on shocking display last friday at sandy hook elementary in newtown connecticut unfortunately this time we the people don't have the same tools to go after gun manufacturers that we did when we went after tobacco manufacturers and that's because the gun industry and mostly republican members of congress have already taken measures to shield the gun industry from any lawsuits related to death or injuries caused by their products...
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going to his report you just saw into this discussion and about the time she spent in sandy hook hey there anastasio first question for you i mean what was your experience in sandy hook over the weekend you said parents are demanding change what do they hope happens next. well that christine you know to describe what's going on on the ground i think if we take all the words in the dictionary and combine them together there really is no way to describe no words to find to describe the heartbreak really the grief the sadness the tears that we saw on the ground this town is really at the epitome of grief during this holiday season you know it's just such a heartbreaking thing to see these you know houses with lights and people were in the mood to celebrate the holidays and then this happened and it just brought everybody down to to a completely completely destroyed state of mind and people are not even beginning to pick up the pieces yet of course the funerals started today and the people we did speak to the locals there saying like you saw on that report we need to change this this has
going to his report you just saw into this discussion and about the time she spent in sandy hook hey there anastasio first question for you i mean what was your experience in sandy hook over the weekend you said parents are demanding change what do they hope happens next. well that christine you know to describe what's going on on the ground i think if we take all the words in the dictionary and combine them together there really is no way to describe no words to find to describe the heartbreak...
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long running debate with a tragic new contacts to as the relatives of the twenty six victims of the sandy hook elementary school shooting mourn the loss the argument over gun control laws in the u.s. is back in the spotlight. you know went to newtown connecticut to find out what people that think. to describe what's going on on the ground i think if we take all the sad words in the dictionary and combine them together there really is no way to describe no words to find to describe the heartbreak really the grief the sadness the tears. we saw on the ground this town is really at the you to me of grief during this holiday season in this country more or less half of the population supports gun control and of the country is split and half believes that it's a civil right and it's a right that americans are entitled to so whether or not any legislation good strong legislation can be passed to prevent these kinds of things is a question we're going to have to wait and see exactly what kind of steps lawmakers take and what the u.s. president takes but certainly i'm sure people are going to be de
long running debate with a tragic new contacts to as the relatives of the twenty six victims of the sandy hook elementary school shooting mourn the loss the argument over gun control laws in the u.s. is back in the spotlight. you know went to newtown connecticut to find out what people that think. to describe what's going on on the ground i think if we take all the sad words in the dictionary and combine them together there really is no way to describe no words to find to describe the...
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great president obama friday the day the twenty first graders were gunned down at sandy hook elementary school was the toughest day of his presidency usually that's a sign that a defining moment has arrived our president's legacies are shaped by how they deal with these defining moments for george w. bush was nine eleven at a funny moment he used to encourage americans to go shopping while their government constructed a massive surveillance state and launched an unwinnable war on terror that's killed hundreds of thousands if not millions of people around the world bankrupt our nation at home and turned us into pariahs for f.d.r. it was the great depression and a funny moment he used to pass the new deal so that bush's legacy is tarnished and f.d.r.'s legacy is celebrated all because of how each use their respective defining moments but often history's take on defining moments as more complicated jimmy carter knows his loss and all too well as he used the defining moment of his presidency the energy crisis to push for revolutionary change in how we deal with energy here in the united sta
great president obama friday the day the twenty first graders were gunned down at sandy hook elementary school was the toughest day of his presidency usually that's a sign that a defining moment has arrived our president's legacies are shaped by how they deal with these defining moments for george w. bush was nine eleven at a funny moment he used to encourage americans to go shopping while their government constructed a massive surveillance state and launched an unwinnable war on terror that's...
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on friday morning he shot and killed her with her own gun got into a car drove about ten minutes to sandy hook elementary quoting two witnesses he didn't say a word during the rampage eight year old zachary was saved by his teachers my youngest son since sandy hook school and. he was in a classroom right near where the shooting took place and he was with a reading teacher just him in the reading teacher and she closed the door and took them into the bathroom they said bathroom floor until police came and said prayers and just stayed very quiet until the police came six school employees were also killed in the shooting including the favorite one. and that you would like encourage. the six and nine year olds held a garage sale with their family after surviving the shooting with proceeds going to their school they did tell them to close their eyes my my daughter. course you never listened so she she didn't and she's pretty she's been talking about that a lot she said she said mommy i can't get that body out of my head i keep seeing people's emotions are stretched to the limit make it inheren
on friday morning he shot and killed her with her own gun got into a car drove about ten minutes to sandy hook elementary quoting two witnesses he didn't say a word during the rampage eight year old zachary was saved by his teachers my youngest son since sandy hook school and. he was in a classroom right near where the shooting took place and he was with a reading teacher just him in the reading teacher and she closed the door and took them into the bathroom they said bathroom floor until...
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then surely we have an obligation to try hard to correspond on a saucer check and i traveled to sandy hook after news of the shooting happened she spent much of the weekend there and has more parents holding their kids a little tighter and a little longer these days oh gosh i'm so glad that i have so many opportunities to . your mind. you're in our family i'm so glad. you're here here i'm still so glad that i'm having breakfast with you this morning candles. flowers toys and grief have filled newtown i keep hearing on the news over and over about the parents that one parent or you pull to get their kids and those that had to be told that their kids were in college. and i can't imagine. if i was in their shoes as a parent that my daughter wouldn't pick up with twenty first graders none of them older than seven were killed in a mass shooting at school twenty year old adam lanza lived with his mother nancy in a well off residential neighborhood on friday morning he shot and killed her with her own gun got into a car drove about ten minutes to sandy hook elementary quoting two witnesses h
then surely we have an obligation to try hard to correspond on a saucer check and i traveled to sandy hook after news of the shooting happened she spent much of the weekend there and has more parents holding their kids a little tighter and a little longer these days oh gosh i'm so glad that i have so many opportunities to . your mind. you're in our family i'm so glad. you're here here i'm still so glad that i'm having breakfast with you this morning candles. flowers toys and grief have filled...
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with scars from sandy hook from the sandy hook tragedy fresh in americans hearts gun control is on everyone's minds what to do how do and force laws to protect our safety but one news network has remained suspiciously quiet during the debate had we wanna know why fox news is censoring itself. and one of the heavyweights in the gun control discussion is of course the national rifle association but the n.r.a. has national influence might not be as powerful as the media would have you think and it will tell you how this group keeps missing the target. and a small step backward for law enforcement officials a giant leap forward for privacy advocates for months of pre-court puts a limit on how much digital information police can extract in criminal investigations a look at the case and the bigger implications than just a bet. it is tuesday december eighteenth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching r t well today the nation continues to grieve the deaths of twenty six people most of them young children after the massacre at sandy hook elementary school in newtown connectic
with scars from sandy hook from the sandy hook tragedy fresh in americans hearts gun control is on everyone's minds what to do how do and force laws to protect our safety but one news network has remained suspiciously quiet during the debate had we wanna know why fox news is censoring itself. and one of the heavyweights in the gun control discussion is of course the national rifle association but the n.r.a. has national influence might not be as powerful as the media would have you think and it...
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hook i mean hurricane sandy and in newtown the president actually he actually brought us through that he held her hand and dragged us through and said it's going to be ok. and it was but what about social protests to mean we had the occupy movement ok do you see something like this you know coming back i mean because you kind of you went to alone this year. yeah they have vanished haven't yet which is really interesting in itself i think the point was made in you know in many ways including during the american presidential debate you know is it the forty seven percent or is it the the one percent it was interesting and i think the point was really made but at the end of the day they did i think they will come back they will come back and it will be about as it was in seattle ten years ago it will be about the environment or they will come back and be it will be about something else because at the end of the day we know who these people are and they all the people who used to demonstrate and say in the sixty's and seventy's and eighty's. on the left they were the people who said we wan
hook i mean hurricane sandy and in newtown the president actually he actually brought us through that he held her hand and dragged us through and said it's going to be ok. and it was but what about social protests to mean we had the occupy movement ok do you see something like this you know coming back i mean because you kind of you went to alone this year. yeah they have vanished haven't yet which is really interesting in itself i think the point was made in you know in many ways including...
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president obama's pledge to tackle firearms ownership in the wake of the sandy hook school massacre has seen the shooting spree develop into a shopping spree for guns. she can spoke to some of the store owners who are cashing. about two weeks ago actually on this particular wall here. we are is four rows down four rows across. with everything going on in politics right now with the possible ban and everything everyone is flooding in. purchasing right away gun stores all across the u.s. are reporting record sales just two weeks after the tragic shooting at the elementary school in newtown americans are scrambling to buy the same type of weapon that adam lanza used in the connecticut shooting plus high capacity magazines and a lot of them panic buying trigger it out of fear that the white house is out to ban the weapons but this time the words need to lead to action we we actually i would say you could double or triple and say oh it's the best day we've ever had as a business no a r fifteen for this customer all sold out at the store while prices on line have gone through the roof been go
president obama's pledge to tackle firearms ownership in the wake of the sandy hook school massacre has seen the shooting spree develop into a shopping spree for guns. she can spoke to some of the store owners who are cashing. about two weeks ago actually on this particular wall here. we are is four rows down four rows across. with everything going on in politics right now with the possible ban and everything everyone is flooding in. purchasing right away gun stores all across the u.s. are...
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storm of calls to rein in the accessibility of weapons in america in the wake of the massacre at this sandy hook elementary school in connecticut where twenty children and six adults died. on has more on the future of the second amendment a week after the tragedy at the elementary school in newtown president obama made the same pledge as when he became president four years ago to try and get assault weapons off the streets of the u.s. it's a pledge he has failed to deliver on this is not the first incident where we've gone there. were a few but the administration indicates this time it's different this time they're serious it will take commitment and compromise and most volatile take coach shooting. it's a school and it's an important part of our hearing the debate taking place at the moment suggests national consensus on the issue is far down the line and the dialogue between those who support and those who oppose such a ben comes down to that with guns come safety if the guns are in the hands of the good guys that you know believe will be. the interest group in washington the national rif
storm of calls to rein in the accessibility of weapons in america in the wake of the massacre at this sandy hook elementary school in connecticut where twenty children and six adults died. on has more on the future of the second amendment a week after the tragedy at the elementary school in newtown president obama made the same pledge as when he became president four years ago to try and get assault weapons off the streets of the u.s. it's a pledge he has failed to deliver on this is not the...
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problem in the first place the gun adam lanza used to kill twenty young children and six adults of the sandy hook elementary school was an a or fifteen semiautomatic rifle it's a military style rifle that can shoot hundreds of rounds at a rapid speed it belongs to adams mother who he also murdered nancy lanza a teacher at the same elementary school owned six guns numerous types of assault weapons are readily available for purchase in the us at gun stores at gun shows and online after the newtown tragedy many americans are calling for change again make it inherently make it worth something we could meet something good you can't forget you could create change previous meaningful attempts to change hit a wall and that wall is the second amendment of the constitution the right of the people to bear arms skeptics say the most the administration can do is require background checks at gun shows but again adam lanza's mother a teacher at an elementary school would have probably passed any of those checks and her military style rifle would have ended up in the hands of her son anyway that constitutio
problem in the first place the gun adam lanza used to kill twenty young children and six adults of the sandy hook elementary school was an a or fifteen semiautomatic rifle it's a military style rifle that can shoot hundreds of rounds at a rapid speed it belongs to adams mother who he also murdered nancy lanza a teacher at the same elementary school owned six guns numerous types of assault weapons are readily available for purchase in the us at gun stores at gun shows and online after the...
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only five percent are receiving any kind of education peter all of germany the tragedy of the sandy hook massacre has brought america's gun owning culture into sharp focus it's a subject of cost thanks to. technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future. thank. you. on the edge of human capability. struggling with pain and relief to. play out to become the first. force and fall in the. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle death by gunshot with the heart wrenching murder of twenty children six adults in newtown connecticut there appears to be a change of mood in the u.s. about its gun laws and culture of violence well this tragedy be a catalyst for change or merely a blip in america's love affair with guns. to cross the guns in america i'm joined by roger payne washington he is the founder and director of cato center for constitutional studies in san francisco we have scott blakeman he is a political comedian and commentator and in paris we cross to rachel marston she's a political communications strategist and a syndicated columnist right cross talk rule
only five percent are receiving any kind of education peter all of germany the tragedy of the sandy hook massacre has brought america's gun owning culture into sharp focus it's a subject of cost thanks to. technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future. thank. you. on the edge of human capability. struggling with pain and relief to. play out to become the first. force and fall in the. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle death by gunshot with the heart...